EdSharp 1.2 released

Fixed the default EdSharp.ini overwriting the Import and Export sections of the user's EdSharp.ini configuration file. Fixed commands such as Quote (Control+Q) producing an error if no text was at the cursor position (because the document was empty or the cursor was at the end).

Added support for enhanced speech messages when using the System Access screen reader fromhttp://serotek.com

Enhanced Find and Replace commands (Control+F, Control+Shift+F, and Control+R). The Text you enter in Find or Replace dialogs may now include tokens that represent nonprinting characters. This syntax is available for strings in the C programming language and its variations. Common tokens are a pair of characters consisting of a backslash and letter, such as the following: \r for carriage return (ASCI 13), \n for line feed (ASCII 10), \t for tab (ASCII 9), and \f for form feed (ASCII 12). Such tokens allow you to search for text, say, at the beginning or end of a line (use \n for a line break in EdSharp).

The trade off for this flexibility is that backslash and quote characters must be preceded by a backslash when intended literally (not part of a token), i.e., \\ for backslash and \" for quote. Since this doubling of characters may be cumbersome with search terms such as a file path, however, EdSharp supports use of an initial @ character to indicate that the following characters should be interpreted literally rather than as possible tokens. For example, if searching for a file in the document, you could enter the term@c:\temp\temp.txtrather than c:\\temp\\temp.txtIf you need to search for an interpreted string that begins with the @ character, precede it with a backslash, e.g.,\@\c:\\temp\\temp.txt

The Open Other Format command (Control+Shift+O) now shows the command line attempted by a custom converter if it failed to produce text. Added several converters distributed with EdSharp. External converters are stored in the Convert subfolder of the EdSharp program folder, e.g., in (default installation):\Program Files\EdSharp\Convert

Besides the pdf converter mentioned previously, the default EdSharp.ini configuration file (in the EdSharp program folder) now includes the following conversions. GetText.exe is configured for importing from Windows Help (.hlp) and Microsoft Word (.doc) — thereby eliminating the need to load Word for this purpose. chm2txt imports Compiled HTML Help (.chm).htm2md.exe imports from HTML and variations (.htm, .html, and .xhtml) to a text format called Markdown — explained athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdownmd2htm.exe does the reverse, exporting from Markdown to HTML. EdSharp supports Markdown as an aid to developing web pages.